32-year-old woman first H1N1 victim this season

A 32-year-old woman from Ambernath
became the first H1N1 victim victim of the dreaded H1N1 infection in
the Mumbai Metropolitan Region this monsoon season, succumbing to the
ailment on Wednesday.

TNN | Aug 10, 2013, 01.11 AM IST

MUMBAI: A 32-year-old woman from Ambernath became the first H1N1 victim victim of the dreaded H1N1 infection in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region this monsoon season, succumbing to the ailment on Wednesday.

She had been brought to the civic-run Sion Hospital on August 1 where she was diagnosed with the viral infection following complaints of.

Sources at the hospital said that the patient was brought to the hospital on August 1 with complaints of breathlessness, fever with chills, sore throat and a severe headache. The woman was admitted to the hospital's ICU at the of Sion Hospital as her condition kept deteriorating.

"The patient developed viral pneumonia, which developed into acute respiratory distress syndrome," said a doctor at the hospital. The hospital had no clarity on whether the victim was given Tamiflu soon after contracting the infection in Ambernath or not.

The BMC's epidemiologist, Dr Mangala Gomare, said that so far in Mumbai, there had been 37 positive H1N1 cases but no deaths. Recently, a pregnant woman was diagnosed with the infection and admitted to Kasturba Hospital. Maharashtra has witnessed the highest number of H1N1 deaths in the country after Gujarat and Rajasthan this year.

H1N1 A report released by the ministry of health and family welfare stated that between January 1 and July 26, of the 413 people with the viral infection, 90 had died in the state. In Gujarat, there were 1,031 cases and 196 deaths while in Rajasthan, there were 852 cases and 163 deaths. Nationwide, there were 4,868 cases and 610 deaths.

Symptoms include an onset of high fever with chills and dry cough. Other symptoms may be runny nose, sore throat, body ache, headache and breathlessness.

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